Distancesite only — no public riding trails
Difficultypro-only freeride; the actual lines are exhibition-only
Land managerPrivate (with BLM access roads)
Best seasonevent held in fall most years; dates vary

Mountain Bike Trail · Virgin

Red Bull Rampage Venue

Red Bull Rampage is the freeride mountain bike event held annually on a stretch of private cliffs north of Virgin, Utah.

Red Bull Rampage is the freeride mountain bike event held annually on a stretch of private cliffs north of Virgin, Utah. The lines the riders ride during the event — long sandstone ridges with constructed wooden ladders, drops, and gap jumps — are not public trails. The venue sits on private land, the access road is gated outside the event window, and the lines are constructed and maintained for the event by Red Bull's contracted trail crews.

Why this page exists as a stub

The 435 Alliance topic-page system carries entries for every named mountain bike location in the area code that visitors might Google. Red Bull Rampage is one of the most-Googled mountain bike terms in southern Utah, and most of those searches end at the wrong place — at trailheads where visitors expected to find the lines and discovered they couldn't. This page exists to point those searches at the truth: the venue is private, closed outside the event, and not part of the public trail system.

What's actually rideable nearby

Riders who came to Virgin specifically because of Red Bull Rampage and discovered the venue is closed have several real public alternatives within ten minutes: Gooseberry Mesa, Smith Mesa, Wire Mesa, Guacamole, and the Hurricane Cliffs network on the south side of UT-9. None of them include the constructed Rampage lines, but they collectively offer the slickrock-and-cliff terrain that makes Virgin a freeride destination.

Where the venue sits in the 435

Red Bull Rampage put Virgin on the international mountain bike map in a way none of the public trails could. The event runs once a year (most years), draws a few hundred thousand on-site spectators and millions of online viewers, and has shaped the global freeride scene since 2001. The economic ripple — hotels, restaurants, bike shops in Hurricane and Virgin during event week — is real even though the venue itself stays closed the other 360 days of the year.

Last updated  ·  Apr 27, 2026